1786 in architecture
The year 1786 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings and structures
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Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
- Casa de Esteban de Luca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1]
- Golghar, Patna, India, built by Captain John Garstin.[2] [3]
- Henley Bridge, designed by William Hayward of Shrewsbury,[4] who died before construction was completed.
- Schloss Bellevue in Berlin, Germany, designed by Michael Philipp Boumann.[5]
- St. Catherine's Cathedral, Kherson, Ukraine, built by General Ivan Gannibal.[6]
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Charles Percier.
Births
- January 23 – Auguste de Montferrand, French Neoclassical architect who worked primarily in Russia (died 1858)
- May 7 – John Watts, Irish military architect (died 1873)
Deaths
- February 28 – John Gwynn, English architect and civil engineer (born 1713)
- October 20 – Humphrey Sturt, British architect (born c.1725)
References
- Michael Luongo (11 October 2005). Frommer's Buenos Aires. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-0-471-75124-3.
- Golghar, 1888 Victoria & Albert Museum.
- "Destinations : Patna". Archived from the original on 2014-09-18.
- "Henley's Medieval Bridge". VCH Explore. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- Martin Kieren; Förderverein Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (1 August 1998). New architecture, Berlin 1990-2000. Jovis.
- http://russian-church.ru/viewpage.php?cat=kherson&page=7 Russian Church (Russian)]. Accessed 11 December 2013.
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